indefensible: john gruber

Gruber and his ilk's smug self-satisfaction and complete lack of self-awareness make me more guilty about using Apple products than basically anything else.

Also, I hope Ben Brooks gets mobbed by dogs everyday for the rest of his life.

excited to see gruber cover the tax stuff with the diligence he covered foxconn

You mean "here's Apple's opening statement?"

yes, it's "an interesting read"

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/05/21/senate-hearing

ohhhh boy.

looooooooool

oh my

oh jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YQXDQeKDlM

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/05/21/mccain

us republicans hating change, whodathunk

McCain's joke-writers in fine form

John Siracusa ‏@siracusa 32m
No cardboard sleeve on the Ponyo blu-ray. Upsetting.

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literally upset that the box his optical media disc came in doesn't have an extra piece of trash on the outside

upsetting

like, I dunno, reports of moderately-sized national disasters in distant states, or finding out that someone has been talking shit about you

sorry but i don't have time for people who dislike him

https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336863716408705024

eh, I've said hyperbolic stuff on twitter too

siracusa's OS X writeups for Ars Technica obviously all classic, I just wanted to dump some mock rage on the internet

ya siracusa is one of the better tech writers for sure i just thought that tweet was funny

sorry but i don't have time for people who dislike him

― markers, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just want to dwell for a moment on what an amazing sentence this is

*dwells* d(-_-)b

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/05/28/sweethome

haha omg his post is awful enough and then you read the fucking nail clipper review

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marco-arment-sells-the-magazine-to-its-editor-glenn-fleishman-209349501.html

that's three

well, if you include tumblr

lol https://twitter.com/GlennF/status/339774183653404672

can't wait for Marco's high-end speaker review detailing how awesome Phish sound on a $50k rig.

lol he is so awful

would you guys rank them: gruber, then marco, then siracusa from worst to best? are there any writers who aren't part of their immediate circle that you would rank higher?

I don't really consider Siracusa part of that armchair typographer crowd tbh.

from worst to best? the opposite tbh. siracusa, marco, grub. when gruber is on he's on imo.

haha armchair typographer

Siracusa >>>>>> (apart from shit Steve Jobs book review) >>> Grubes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Marco >>>>> Trust & verify >>>>> Brooks

stet otm

when gruber is on he's on imo.

i agree with this, but he rarely is any more. he hasn't written two articles in a row that weren't embarrassingly bad or worse for like 6 years.

marco is basically valueless as a writer though, so year, stet otm.

in this post he compares tumblr dude to steve jobs... twice http://www.marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product nice way to simultaneously pat yrself on the back for being involved w something so important and backhandedly call yr boss a sociopath - tumblr is a nice website and all but its not exactly an iphone

i didn't get those same sinister messagings from that article, but i did from the one about phish.

Marco's writing is worthless, and so is The Magazine. The true believers in Tumblr are the same breed who jizzed on and on about MySpace until that platform got blown out of the water. I'm sure that soon, we'll be hearing about The Next Wordpress...oh wait, isn't that supposed to be SVBTLE or something?

Stet massively OTM.

http://www.marco.org/2013/05/30/coffee-storage

A reader asked via email:

How do you store your coffee?

I get this question a lot.

oh jesus

Yeah, the true horror comes when these guys link to something that has open comments, and then you see what their comments would be like if only they enabled them.

It's the one awesome think about their schticks that means we're spared page after page of "awesome post, you really hit the nail on the head with your writing as usual, Marco".

Yeah, the true horror comes when these guys link to something that has open comments, and then you see what their comments would be like if only they enabled them.

ha otm

do you guys like jeanlouis gasees blog?

i don't read it too often tbh

maybe i should

maybe that would BE a good thing